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		Sharparam on Jan 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accesse... Spoofing the user-agent to look like Chrome made reddit work for me when using Firefox.

arprocter on Jan 14, 2022 [–]

Weird - perhaps the extension I was using didn't actually work

Seems like they've fixed whatever it was now anyhow

Sharparam on Jan 15, 2022 | [–]

It seems the User-Agent workaround solved it for some people, but not for others. Definitely weird.

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